Ofelia Teresa Alas
Ofelia Teresa Alas | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 July 1943 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
| Thesis | Sobre uma Extensão do Conceito de Compacidade e suas Aplicações |
| Doctoral advisor | Edison Farah |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | mathematics |
| Main interests | topology and set theory |
Ofelia Teresa Alas (born 4 June 1943) is Brazilian mathematician, senior professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo. She served as its vice-dean in the years from 1990 to 1994, under Pedro Alberto Morettin's warrant. Alas is a researcher in the fields of topology and set theory. She is notable for being the second Brazilian woman to obtain a PhD in mathematics from a Brazilian institution.
Career
Alas obteined a bachelor's and licence degree in mathematics in 1964 from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo.[1][2]
In 1965, she became the only woman to receive a fellowship to develop activities in Instituto de Pesquisas Matemáticas at USP.[3]
She finished her master's degree in 1967 with the thesis Seis proposições equivalentes ao Teorema de Zermelo and her PhD in 1968, with the thesis Sobre uma Extensão do Conceito de Compacidade e suas Aplicações, both supervised by Edison Farah.[4] She became the second Brazilian woman to earn a mathematical doctoral's title from a Brazilian institution.[5][1][2]
In these programs, Ofelia Alas noted that there were very few women present.[1][2]
In 1968, Alas worked as an assistent professor at the University of São Paulo, but resigned for personal reasons. She've done researchers in France and Argentina. In 1975, she was rehired as temporary professor and, one year later, she was hired as a full time. Alas became the first associate woman professor. The second woman to obtain this title was Mary Lilian Lourenço, in 2000.[2]
Between 1981 and 1983, she worked in a post-doc at the University of Toronto.[6]
In 1990, Ofelia Alas was approved as full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics and retired in 1994, but continues to contribute as senior. Between 1990 and 1994, she served as vice-dean of IME-USP, working alongside dean Pedro Alberto Morettin.[1][2]
She is a member of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society and the Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo.[6]
Research
Alas is a researcher in topology and set theory's fields, with enphasis in collectionwise normal space.[1]
Here is a small collection of Ofelia's works.
- 1964: On gauss spaces.[7]
- 1970: Topological groups and the generalized continuum hypothesis.[8]
- 1970: Une proposition équivalente au théorème de Zermelo.[9]
Biography
Ofelia Alas was born in São Paulo, Brazil on 4 June 1943,[1] daughter of a engineer and a piano teacher. Since childhood, she had showed interest in mathematics. Alas is a mother of two.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Galeria de Diretores: Ofélia Teresa Alas". IME-USP (in Brazilian Portuguese). 1 September 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f Machado, Suélen Rita Andrade (31 December 2023). "O PROTAGONISMO FEMININO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DA MATEMÁTICA NO BRASIL". Revista Cearense de Educação Matemática. 2 (5): 1–20. doi:10.56938/rceem.v2i5.3725. ISSN 2764-8311.
- ^ Bádue, Gabriel Soares (September 2018). "A INSTITUCIONALIZAÇÃO DA MATEMÁTICA APLICADA NA ESCOLA POLITÉCNICA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO (1940 – 1970)" (PDF). ufba. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ^ Moraes, Carlos Roberto de (2007). "Uma história da lógica no Brasil". Universidade Estadual Paulista (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 7 August 2025.
- ^ Silva, Clóvis Pereira da. A Matemática No Brasil - Uma História de seu Desenvolvimento: O desenvolvimento da Matemática no Brasil, da década de 1930 à década de 1980 (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ a b Cavalari, M.F. (2013). «Mulheres Pioneiras na Matemática no Brasil». Revista do Professor de Matemática. 30: 5-9
- ^ Alas, O. T. (1969). "On gauss spaces". Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. 82 (1): 25–33. doi:10.1007/BF02410785. ISSN 0373-3114.
- ^ Alas, Ofelia Teresa (1 January 1970). "Topological groups and the generalized continuum hypothesis". Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences. 46 (7.S1). doi:10.3792/pja/1195526589. ISSN 0386-2194.
- ^ Alas, Ofelia Teresa (1 January 1970). "Une proposition équivalente au théorème de Zermelo". Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences. 46 (5). doi:10.3792/pja/1195520303. ISSN 0386-2194.